Artichoke pie

Surprise, surprise: I’m here again. New day, new reportage from my small kitchen. If I’ve always dreamed of having a black table now I know that I don’t want it anymore. Let’s forget for a second that I’m an instagram maniac and that I love posting pictures of my food and dear lord Strasbourg is so foggy and grey and with a black table it’s impossible to take a good picture if you have no light, let’s forget it. The real thing is that it gets dirty in a second. You clean it, turn around, turn back, dirty again. After this experience I’ll forget that I wanted any black in my house, this for sure. But we’re here to talk about food and not furniture. What I’m cooking today is one of the most simple and at the same time more scenic recipes ever made. Everyone would think you’ve been working on it for ages, the real thing is that for most of the time you can take out your glass of wine, your book and wait while the things cook themselvs. This is artichokes’ magic, they make things look so pretty every time! It’s pretty healthy this time, just in case you can try to substitute the butter with olive oil, but even the butter is not that much!

Now comes the annoying part of the recipe: clean the artichokes. Cut the stem, remove the outher leaves and with a corer remove the down in the middle. Be careful to use gloves or frequently wash your hands with lemon juice to not let them turn black! As soon as you finish with one artichoke, plunge it in the bowl.